Citrix Systems plans to expand its Desktop Server product into three different offerings, including one where OS components are streamed on demand to a PC or thin client over the network, using technology from its acquisition last year of Ardence.
Lou Shipley, VP and general manager of the Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based ISV's management systems group, said that today, Desktop Server is a connection broker between Microsoft's RDP and Cirix's ICA. In the next version of the product, however, he said it will be able to run multiple virtual, hosted desktops.
These represent the first two flavors of Desktop Server, which Shipley referred to as "Physical OS" in which there is a single instance of the operating system delivered to the endpoint machine, and "Virtual OS" where multiple versions are delivered via a virtualization layer from companies like VMware.
He said the third variety, "Diskless OS," will appear further down the road, once Citrix has incorporated some of the technology from the Ardence acquisition into the product. "The Ardence Streaming Server will remain a standalone business through 2007," he said, "but we're working of integration, with some of the functionality going into Desktop Server."
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